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Lost Planet 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sequel to Lost Planet: Extreme Condition which is also made by Capcom, taking place ten years after the events of the first game, on the same fictional planet. The story takes place back on E.D.N. III 10 years after the events of the first game. The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates.
After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. Lost Planet 2 runs on the MT-Framework 2.0, an updated version of the engine used in several Capcom-developed games.
We normally test at higher settings, but the hardware being evaluated today was not capable of maintaining solid framerates. We are therefore testing at 1080p in DX11 mode with settings on high. DX11 is set to medium.
With these lower settings the hardware struggles to maintain perfectly playable frame rates, dropping to 23 fps during a few environmental sections. the HD6790 is slightly outperformed by the GTX550 Ti, although minimum frame rates are a little higher. In CrossFireX, the HD6790 delivers very capable levels of performance.
Thats a nice looking card for the price. like the cooler a lot. dual fans on a card with a modest power delivery is always going to work well.
Interesting to see they have opted for direct contact heatpipes. seems to work a treat.
Might be a better deal than the £105 HD5850 from sapphire, close call though.
I still think Sapphire have crapped on the 6 series mid range party with the HD5850 at that price, its a better card overall, and costs less. unless you want multiple screens or something, id still opt for it at the reduced price.
Very nice. THese are the cards people buy, not HD6990’s. i could insure my car for a year for that.
Good card, but, and its a BIG BIG but. The HD5850 which sapphire brought out again with awesome cooler.
Surely this is THE buy of the moment? or am I missing something
Big fan of dual fan cards myself, bought an ASUS Direct CU recently and its so much quieter than my last card
CFx is really good, but for £230 you could almost get a 6970.
Great looking board for the price, its 15 euros cheaper than sapphires here.
Dual fan coolers always work well and thankfully the companies know not to cut costs by using crappy fans that make a lot of noise. I think this one is a winner for XFX. price is good too, I was expecting it to be 130.
I want to aim higher, but im having problems getting the funds I need. this might do me and I can upgrade with another later in the year.
Just remember that when you are moving to CrossfireX that it is very driver based. if a new game is out it is a good chance you will have it beaten by the time AMD sort out the profile. it sucks from that point of view.